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ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped ratings in the first quarter, but the period also showed viewership coming back down to Earth across all of the evening newscasts. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period…

A year after the start of the Covid-19 shutdowns, network evening news viewership fell to levels resembling pre-pandemic habits. Viewership for World News Tonight with David Muir, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell was down for the week of March 8 compared to the same period a…

ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again is closing out the year as the most viewed network evening newscast, but it comes after all of the traditional broadcasts saw an uptick amid the coronavirus crisis. World News Tonight averaged 9.61 million total viewers for the year, compared to 8.29 million for NBC Nightl…

After three weeks of stasis, Joe Biden's transition to the White House has suddenly taken off like the 1967 Chevy Corvette the President-elect has long proudly owned. In his first interview since being declared winner in the 2020 election and one day after the General Services Administrator finally signed off on the…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped all the networks in evening news viewership for the season that ended last week, and also won the key 25-54 and 18-49 demographic. The network said that it was the first time in 24 years that it had won in total viewers and the key demo categories. All of the…

The final Nielsen numbers for the just-completed 2018-2019 network news season are in, and ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished first in total viewers and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt beat its rivals in key demographics. But viewership was flat or down across the board, even as the networks…

Ronan Farrow, author of New Yorker’s explosive report on Harvey Weinstein, is a contributor to NBC News and appeared on its Nightly News to talk about his 10-month investigation. Thirteen women told him Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them; three of them claimed Weinstein raped them. "Uncanny similarities…

No Olympics, no Super Bowl, no problem. NBC said today that it has won the September-to-September 18-49 ratings crown for a fourth consecutive year. With a week left to go in the 2016-17 season, the network based its victory on the most current" ratings data from Nielsen Media Research. NBC also topped its Big 4…

In its ratings report celebrating last week’s numbers, ABC News addressed NBC News’ decision to re-title NBC Nightly News in order to keep last week’s numbers off its books. “Re-titling move comes amid razor-thin race – World News Tonight is No. 1 for the first time in 21 years, season to date,” ABC boasted. ABC’s Worl…

Faye Dunaway is speaking out publicly for the first time about the unforgettable Oscar Best Picture snafu when, alongside Warren Beatty, she mistakenly announced La La Land as the winner instead of Moonlight. The actress sat down with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News where she opened up about the mixup and how she…

During the week of the San Bernardino shootings, more viewers turned to NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt than any other network newscast.  The NBC broadcast clocked an average of 9.821M viewers and 2.413M news-demo viewers. Holt led special hour-long live editions of NBC’s broadcast for every time zone on Wednesday…

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt clocked another win, with its biggest audience since March and hit a five-week high in the news demo thanks to its 5% gain versus same week last year. Holt’s newscast clocked 8.6 million viewers, besting ABC World News with David Muir’s 8.5 million and CBS Evening News with Scott Pelle…